Sydney Smith , was an English writer and clergyman.
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“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
Sydney Smith
“The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.”
“Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.”
“Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today”
“Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society”
“I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion”
“Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.”
“It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”
“The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts”
“I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together”